Day 8,9,10 - 198km

This was the best place yet to have my morning noodle soup, served by a toothless old guy who insisted on jabbering away to me in thai while I tried my best to put on an understanding face, with noodles dripping down my face(still have not mastered the chop stick)
This rest stop was two hours in to my biggest day yet of 128km from Nakwon Sawon to Huamhaen Phet, and lets just say I will be a happy man if that stays my longest day.
I decided a rest day was in order and luckily found a great guest house. The owner of which brought me out to the family farm in the national park yesterday evening. While an incredible electrical storm was going on around us we all ate and drank alot of beer and whiskey and once again the local toothless drunk took it upon himself to entertain me with some very funny jokes and anecdotes (I have on good authority) in Thai, it must be my smell that attracts them. Anyway it all added up to be my best night in Thailand to date, so if anyone out there finds themselves in Humphaen Phet stay in the Three J Guest House, there is my promised plug for Mr. Sharim.
This morning after waking up with a little bit of a groggy head I had a pleasant 70km cycle along backroads to Tak which gave me a little hint of what the next stage of my cycle is to entail..............mountains and lots of them. Any notions over the past week that I was suprisingly fit were dashed on my first 5 minute climb in Thailand and with a vertical ascent of over 1000 metres on the cards tomorow on the 80km road to Mae Sot I am a tad nervous but excited at the same time, after a week of cycling across mile upon mile of paddy fields I feel it is time for a change in scenery.